Support / Domains

Domains

• Transferring a domain to Nano servers
• Adding domains to your account
• Creating subdomains
• Changing you main domain
• Parking multiple domains in one directory
• Edititing DNS
• Editing MX entries
• Creating URL redirects
• Moving websites and domains across Nano servers

Transferring a domain to Nano servers

There are two ways to transfer a domain to Nano servers:

1. With DNS zone transfer. This variant is the most convinient and simple, you're delegating a DNS control to our company. In this case we take all responsobilities for your domain to work, and provide you with a handy DNS web-based tool to control your domain. To transfer a domain to our DNS servers, please set the following NS servers for your domain:
   • ns.nano.lv (IP = 85.31.97.68)
   • ns2.nano.lv (IP = 195.244.128.155)

   To transfer latvian domains (.lv zone) you should send a request to the Latvian University of Mathematics and Informatics Institution (LUMII, website — www.nic.lv), to the email address dns-reg@nic.lv. The request should be sent from an administrative e-mail (the one you've used to register the domain). You may use a web-interface provided by NIC as well to transfer domain to our servers.

   To transfer a domain that is no in the .lv zone, please use you registrar's DNS control panel. If there's no DNS web-panel — please contact your registrar.

2. Without DNS zone transfer. This variant is handy in case if you want to keep DNS management on your server, and keep only a part of your projects on our servers, for exaple, host a web-site at our servers, and mail and some other services in other place. In this case, you should edit your domain's «A» DNS records to be linked to our server, which will host this domain. For more information please contact your DNS server administrator. Our IP addresses:
   • if21 : 91.203.68.66
   • if23 : 85.31.97.67
   • if24 : 193.46.236.34
   • if25 : 193.46.236.105
   • if26 : 85.31.97.194
   • if27 : 85.31.97.226

Adding domains to your account

Addon domains allow to host multiple domains (this number is affected by a selected hosting plan) inside one hosting account.

Creating subdomains

Subdomain — a domain which looks like subdomain.domain.com. Please follow the following instruction to create a subdomain:

To link a subdomain to an arbitrary IP address, please contact our support service.

Changing you main domain

Main domain is a domain, which is linked to the /public_html foler right after the account creation. To change the main domain please use a «Parked domains« function inside cPanel or contact our support service.

Parking multiple domains in one directory

This function allows to attach multiple domain names to a single web-site, i.e. people visiting domain1.com и domain2.com will see the same website — domain1.com. To create such an alias, you must specify an existing document root during an addon domain creation.

If you want to park different domain names to the main domain, please use a «Parked domain» function.

Edititing DNS

To edit your domain's DNS settings (NS, A, CNAME etc.) please contact our support service.

Editing MX entries

MX entries describe the way the domain's mail will be handled. By default, all mail is processed by our servers. But if you change the MX entry to another mail server, all e-mails will be handled by this new server. This options allows to process and store e-mails outside Nano servers.

Creating URL redirects

To create a URL redirect (i.e. visitor enters a www.domain1.com address and is automatically guided to a www.domain2.com) you must have a hosting with a domain attached to it. There are two ways to create an URL redirect:

1. .htaccess
   

   Please create a .htaccess flie (or open an existing one) in domain's root directory, and type in the following code:

   Redirect / http://address_of_the_redirect's_destination
2. PHP
   

   Please create an index.php file (or open an existing one), and type in the following code in the very beginning of the file:

   <? header('Location: http://address_of_the_redirect's_destination'); ?>

Moving websites and domains across Nano servers

To move a domain from one Nano server to another it's a must to remove an existing DNS entry first, and only then to create it on another server, otherwise the domain will stop working because of a DNS conflict!